Word: coms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Master of the Chinese junk will be a Rhode Island Irishman named Thomas Francis ("Ted") Kilkenny, who served as a Junior Lieutenant in the Navy during the War, has sailed square riggers to Alaska, lost his money in a tuna fishing com pany off Southern California and has al ready had one yacht built in China. Last winter he served as captain of another expedition, whose object was to dig up treasure supposedly buried near the island of Dominica by a political opponent of the late President Gomez of Venezuela. They never found the treasure ; the ship lost its rudder...
Last month the Republican Committee went to the two great broadcasting chains, Columbia and National, asked to buy time on the air to present its skits. Last week the correspondence showing how the Com mittee met refusal in both quarters served as advance publicity to gain more attention for the Republican drama than if it had been broadcast from coast to coast. Excerpts from the correspondence...
...last week the gap between living and nonliving things was so narrow as to be almost nonexistent. A century ago the demarcation between organic and inorganic matter was sharp. It grew hazy when chemists began to make com pounds artificially. They found that hydrocyanic acid, simply standing in water, gives rise to urea and other substances found in living tissues. Now that thousands of organic compounds have been synthesized, it is chemical custom to call "organic" any compound, however formed, that contains carbon, since carbon is a notable component of plants and animals. Lately Rockefeller Institute researchers have isolated...
Madeleine Renaud, member of the Comédie Franç, whose performance in Maria Chapdelaine (TIME, Oct. 7) brought her to the attention of U. S. cinemaddicts, was responsible for the sensible suggestion that the adults in La Maternelle should wear no makeup. Otherwise, credit for dialog, direction and, to a large extent, photography goes to Jean Benoit-Lévy, who adapted the picture from Léon Frapié's novel. Son of a toy manufacturer, bespectacled, 47, Director Benoit-Lévy, whose Itto, dealing with Moroccan revolution, is the current cinema sensation in France, selected...
...holders of the Prior Preference have the right to name a majority of the directorate as long as there is $10,000,000 of Prior Preference stock outstanding. In other words, the Preference holders can run the company until the company buys them out. But ever since 1927 the com-pany has been buying in its Preference stock to such an extent that it now holds $9,000,000 of this issue in its treasury, with less than $5,500,000 in public hands. But the stock bought by the company has not been retired. It still exists, classed...